Low Battery Notifications

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For those who have a lot of devices attached exclusively to Home Assistant, I thought you may like the little automation I made.

I have tons of small battery powered devices like the Aqara Mini Wireless Button and Aqara Temperature / Humidity Sensors which I have exclusively connected to Home Assistant.

Without them being connected to the Aqara app, you obviously don’t get a notification when the battery is running low, so I set one up.

I have an automation that runs once a day that does the following:

  1. Checks the battery power of each of my connected devices
  2. If any device has a SOC of 5%=> it will notify me that the battery is getting low.
  3. If any device isn’t detected at all (either due to dead battery or other), it will notify me that a device is offline.

So once a day, I’ll get a notification letting me know if there’s any battery maintenance I need to do.

You could also have it do a notification earlier on (say 10%) to give you a chance to buy/charge up batteries ready to swap out.

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This is quite annoying, and it irritates me too. I wonder if there’s another way to do this besides next-gen device?

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How do you mean next-gen device?